Proved material for roofing



J.K.MAY0.. l MATERIAL EO-R ROOFING, TUBING, TANKS,y WAINSGOTI'NG, BOATSAND OTHER STRUCTURES.

No. 51,735. Patentednec.' 26, 186,5.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN K. MAY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

APl-'iOVlD MATERIAL FOR ROOFINQ, TUBING, TANKS, WAINSCOTINQ BOATS, ANDOTHER STRUCTURES.

Specification forming part of `Letters'Patent No. 51,735, dated December26, 1865.

To all whom 'it may concern Beit known that I, J onN K. MAYO, ofPortand,in the county of Cumberland and State f Maine, have invented a new anduseful Imrcvement in the Manufacture of Material for es Generally; and Ido hereby declare ne following to be a full, clear, and exactdescript-ion of the same, reference being had-to the accompanyingdrawings, which are made part of this specification, and in which-Figure 1 is a transverse section of a waterpipe constructed according to:my invention, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectionof the same. Fig. 3is a side elevation and sectional view of a portion of clapboarding madeupon my improved plan. ot' a section of rooting illustrative ot' myinvention. Fig. 5 representssimilar views of a portion of the interiorlining ot' a house -or' other analogous structure embodying the sameprinciple. Fig. 6 represents a barrel, to which article my invention mayalso Abe advantageously applied.

The scale used in the ensuing description vconsists of a thin layer ot'wood cut from a board or log and forming a veneer.

Myinvention consists in ceinenting together a number of thesey scales orveneers with the v grain ot' the successive pieces running crosswise ordiversely. A number ot' these scale boards, their surfaces having beenpreviously treated with cement or analogous material, areso'laidtogether as to cross the grain of the respective pieces, so as to form atirm inaterial for the construction of houses, boats,

ships,tanks,floors, pipes, drains, sewers, packng-cases, boxes, barrels,sidewalks, cans, pails, tubs, rkins, measures, cheese-bones, trunks,valises, dry-docks, canal-locks, mill and factory plumes, masts, spars,outside covering and inside linish of houses, stores, shops, depots, andwarehouses, fences, covering of piles, railroad-cars, railroad andsuspension bridges,

railroad tracks and sleepers, wagons, carriages,

and carts, bedsteads, sacking, mattresses, and covering of beds, sofas,and sofa-bedsteads, divans, lounges, chairs, and settces. In house- Fig.4 represents similarviews architecture the weather-boarding and insideiinish of the house may consist of this material, yand in vessels ofevery kindl it ma-y bemade -the covering or lining of the ribs orskeleton,

or in some instances mayforxn the bodyoi' the article-as, t'or instance,in pipes in which the v layers are united by an impervious cement,

and so applied to each other that the grain of one will be lengthwise ofthe pipe, ot another will be at right angles to the former,'and, it'others are added, may be spirally around it.

By the well-known processes of wet and dry heating such a. pliabilitymay be given to the `layers as to permit them to readilypassume variousfigures, or be laid upon-irregular objects with the grain of therespective pieces running 'diversely, so as to prevent splitting.

l cannot pretend to anticipate all the vari` ous uses to whichthistscale-board may be applied; 'but suttice i't to say that by themeans employed, l am enabled to make a very strong and light structureot' whatever shape it -may be, or for whatever purpose it may bedesigned. It isi capable of being made an effective and elegantsubstitute for the usual covering of the walls ot` rooms. ,For flooringit isalso available, and' especially in cases where it is an object tomake apartments airLtight. as in ice-houses, fruit-chambers,l and otherrooms which it is desired to isolate for any purpose.

Itis believed that the drawings in connection with the above statementwill suice to explain my invention without dwellingfurther upon it. y YHaving thus described myinventiomthe following is what I claim as newand desire'to secure by Letters Patent: V The application ot'scale-boards or veneers in layers, the direction ot'whose grain iscrossed or diversified, and which are connected together, forming amaterialfor the construction,A

lining, or covering of land land marine structnres.

JOHN K. MAYO. Witnesses:

(l. D. SMITH, JAS. L. EWIN.

